You Must Remember This
You Must Remember This is a storytelling podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century. It’s the brainchild and passion project of Karina Longworth (founder of Cinematical.com, former film critic for LA Weekly), who writes, narrates, records and edits each episode. It is a heavily-researched work of creative nonfiction: navigating through conflicting reports, mythology, and institutionalized spin, Karina tries to sort out what really happened behind the films, stars and scandals of the 20th century.
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87: Six Degrees of Joan Crawford: Douglas Fairb...
In order to understand Joan Crawford’s rise to fame, we have to talk about what Joan - born Lucille LeSueur - was like before she got to Hollywood, and what Hollywood was like before she got there.
40 min
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86: The Blacklist Part 16: Kirk Douglas, Dalton...
How did the Blacklist come to an end?
51 min
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85: The Blacklist Part 15: Frank Sinatra and Al...
Sinatra's attempts to hire Hollywood 10 member Albert Maltz, plus his rocky relationship with JFK.
40 min
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Blacklist Flashback: Frank Sinatra through 1945
Sinatra’s rise to fame and his experiences during World War II
35 min
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84: The Blacklist Part 14: After the Fall: Arth...
Arthur Miller considered Elia Kazan a close friend and collaborator, but when Kazan named names to HUAC, Miller broke with him and wrote The Crucible.
50 min
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83: The Blacklist Part 13: On the Waterfront: E...
A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden were made possible because their director named names.
47 min
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82: The Blacklist Part 12: Stormy Weather: Lena...
Horne, who from the beginning of her career had associated with leftists and “agitators,” got caught up in the anti-communist insanity. One of those agitators was Paul Robeson.
42 min
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Blacklist Flashback: Lena Horne During WWII
Stunning singer/actress Lena Horne was the first black performer to be given the full glamour girl star-making treatment.
64 min
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81: The Blacklist Part 11: Born Yesterday: Judy...
The one star who was subpoenaed to testify about her ties to Communism who was fully supported by her studio.
43 min
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80: The Blacklist Part 10: Salt of the Earth: H...
The first screenwriter to be taken to court by a studio over his blacklist firing.
52 min
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Blacklist Flashback: Howard Hughes + Jane Russell
Ava Gardner gets violent, Hughes’ 15 year-old muse, and how Russell’s boobs did what the Spruce Goose couldn’t.
48 min
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79: The Blacklist Part 9: She: Richard Nixon + ...
From a Broadway and opera star to an exciting politician in the days of FDR.
48 min
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78: The Blacklist Part 8: Storm Warning: Ronald...
From movie actor to politician, from Democrat to Republican.
33 min
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77: The Blacklist Part 7: Monsieur Verdoux: Cha...
The witch hunt that forced him to leave his adopted home, and Hollywood career, behind.
36 min
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Blacklist Flashback: Charlie Chaplin During Wor...
In 1922, Charlie Chaplin was one of the most beloved men in the world.
43 min
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76: The Blacklist Part 6: He Ran All The Way: J...
The biggest star to ever be blacklisted.
45 min
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75: The Blacklist Part 5: The Strange Love of B...
Barbara Stanwyck’s second marriage, to heartthrob Robert Taylor, didn’t make sense in a lot of ways, but the pair were united by their conservative politics.
45 min
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74: The Blacklist Part 4: The African Queen: Hu...
With their career futures uncertain, the trio collaborated on the most difficult film any of them would ever make.
47 min
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Blacklist Flashback: Bogey Before Bacall
Prepare for next week's Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn and John Huston episode with this look back at Ep 13.
40 min
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73: The Blacklist Part 3: Dorothy Parker
Much to the surprise of many of even her closest friends, beginning in the late 1920s the celebrated poet and New Yorker columnist became increasingly drawn to socialist causes.
49 min
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72: The Blacklist Part 2: Crossfire – The Tria...
In 1947, HUAC subpoenaed dozens of Hollywood workers to come to Washington and testify to the presence of Communists in the film industry.
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71: The Blacklist Part 1: The Prehistory of the...
With America increasingly paranoid that it and the Soviet Union were destined to demolish one another through nuclear war, anyone who had connections to Communism was seen by some as a potential threat to national security.
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70: MGM Stories Part 15: Mayer’s Downfall
In the 1940s, Louis B. Mayer was the highest paid man in America, one of the first celebrity CEOs and the figurehead of what for most Americans was the most glamorous industry on Earth. In 1951, Mayer was fired from the studio that bore his name. What...
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69: MGM Stories Part 14: Elizabeth Taylor, The ...
Elizabeth Taylor grew up on the MGM lot, spending 18 years as what she referred to as “MGM chattel.” The last four years of that 18 year sentence were arguably the most interesting. From 1956-1960, she made a run of really interesting...
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68: MGM Stories Part 13: Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame arrived in Hollywood in 1944, after Louis B. Mayer personally plucked her from the New York stage, and changed her name. But Grahame was the rare actress who Mayer didn’t know how to turn into a star. Finally in 1947, Mayer gave...
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